Another day, another Kipper revealed as a Nazi. In this case it’s prospective UKIP candidate for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill in Scotland. He was caught posting bigoted, sectarian and pro-Fascist comments on his Facebook page. He has also followed the standard Kipper response of claiming that they were put up there by others, though as the article says, anyone who did so must have been especially dedicated to fake a blog going back four years. Rather more controversially, the article suggests that racism in Scotland is linked to unionism and loyalism. I’d hope that wasn’t the case, but the comments from Arthur Misty Thackeray, the Kipperfuehrer for Scotland, who also made racist, Islamophobic and sectarian comments, suggests it is.
Barely a day goes by just now without a UKIP candidate in some part of the country exposing themselves as a raging bigot with a poor grasp of social media privacy settings. Tonight it was the turn of prospective Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill MP Scott Cairns, whose social media outpourings were spotted by freelance journalist Aidan Kerr, with a number of screenshots posted to Twitter in which Cairns boasts of his support for “a fascist regime”, calls Alex Salmond a “silly alcoholic wifebeater”, and accuses “looney lefties” of persecuting him.
Within minutes, Cairns had disabled both his Facebook and Twitter accounts, but not before denying that his Facebook ever belonged to him. Despite it containing thousands of postings and photographs, he said it was a “fake account”, although conveniently it was then deactivated within a matter of minutes. If someone really has been running a fake Facebook account purporting to be…
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